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DOC.  No.  2. 

CONVENTION, 

MEMORIAL 

TO  THE 

President  of  the  United  States, 

Heads  of  Departments, 

Senate  and  House  of  Representatives. 


SAN  FRANCISCO  : 

PRINTED  AT  THE  ALTA  JOB  OFFICE,   124  SACRAMENTO  ST. 
1859. 


Bancroft  Library 


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MEMORIAL 

To  the  President  of  the  United  States,  the  Heads  of  Departments, 
and  to  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the  United 
States. 

The  undersigned,  the  President  and  Members  comprising  the 
Pacific  Railroad  Convention,  held  in  San  Francisco,  California, 
September  A.  D.  1859,  have  the  honor  to  address  you  on  behalf 
of  the  said  Convention,  and  the  People  of  the  States  of  Califor- 
nia, Oregon,  and  the  Territory  of  Washington,  whom  we  rep- 
resent, on  the  subject  of  a  Continental  Railroad,  from  the  Pa- 
cific to  the  Valley  of  the  Mississippi. 

The  Convention  was  called  in  pursuance  of  the  following 

CONCURRENT  RESOLUTIONS 

Of  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  California. 

Resolved,  By  the  Assembly,  the  Senate  concurring,  that  to 
promote  the  interest  and  insure  the  protection  and  security  of 
the  People  of  the  State  of  California  and  Oregon,  and  the  Ter- 
ritories of  Washington  and  Arizona  ;  and  especially  to  consid- 
er the  refusal  of  Congress  to  take  efficient  measures  for  the 
construction  of  a  Railroad  from  the  Atlantic  States  to  the  Pa- 
cific, and  to  adopt  measures  whereby  the  building  of  said  Rail- 
road can  be  accomplished,  it  is  expedient  that  a  Convention  be 
held  on  the  twentieth  day  of  September,  A.  D.  eighteen  hun- 
dred and  fifty-nine,  at  the  City  of  San  Francisco,  in  the  State 
of  California,  composed  of  Delegates  from  the  said  States  and 
Territories. 

Resolved,  That  the  people  of  the  several  counties  of  the 
said  States  and  Territories,  are  hereby  especially  requested  to 
send  to  said  Convention,  Delegates  equal  to  the  number  of  the 
members  of  the  Legislature  of  the  said  States  and  Territories, 


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to  which  they  are  entitled,  to  represent  them  in  said  Conven- 
tion. 

Resolved,  That  His  Excellency,  the  Governor  of  this  State, 
be  requested  to  send  copies  of  the  foregoing  Resolutions  to  the 
Governor  of  the  State  of  Oregon  and  Territories  of  Washing- 
ton and  Arizona,  respectively. 

Passed,  April  5th,  1856. 


Office  of  the  Secretary  of  State,  ) 
Sacramento,  Cal,  August  4.  1859         j" 
I,  FERRIS   FORMAN,   Secretary  of  State  of  the  State  of 
California,  do  hereby  certify  that   the   foregoing  is  a  full,  true 
and  correct   copy  of  Concurrent   Resolution   No.    25,  passed 
April  5th,  1859,  now  on  file  at  my  office. 
,  <s — -  ^      Witness  my  hand  and  the   Great  Seal  of  State,  at 
•J  seal  >•      office  in   Sacramento,    California,  the  4th   day   of 


August,  1859. 


FERRIS  FORMAN, 

Secretary  of  State. 


The  Convention  was  numerously  attended  ;  representing  two 
of  the  sovereign  States,  and  one  of  the  great  Territories  of  the 
General  Government ;  embracing  the  entire  extent  of  United 
States  territory  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 

The  Convention  continued  its  session  through  five  days, 
carefully  canvassing,  in  all  its  relations  and  bearings,  the  sub- 
ject of  the  Continental  Railway,  and  reached  its  conclusions 
and  adopted  its  measures  with  remarkable  and  most  gratifying 
unanimity. 

As  the  result  of  the  deliberations  of  that  body,  touching  the 
subjects  relating  to  Congressional  action  in  behalf  of  the  States 
and  Territory  bordering  upon  the  Pacific,  we  are  authorized 
respectfully  to  present  to  you  the  following  statements  and 
suggestions : 

California  has  been  a  sovereign  State  of  the  Union  more 
than  nine  years.  She  has  a  population  exceeding  five  hundred 
thousand — active,  intelligent  and  loyal. 

For  ten  years,  and  without  intermission,  has  her  people  con. 
tributed  unprecedented  sums  to  the  gain  and  prosperity  of  the 


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nation.  She  possesses  unrivalled  mineral,  agricultural  and 
manufacturing  resources,  excellence  of  climate  and  commercial 
position. 

These,  with  her  harbors,  navigable  bays  and  rivers,  geogra- 
phical position,  commercial  relations,  and  intermediate  station 
on  the  direct  line  of  Asiatic  and  European  trade,  justly  entitle 
the  State  and  her  people  to  a  consideration  from  the  General 
Government  far  greater  than  has  been  granted. 

Notwithstanding  the  abundance  of  her  local  resources,  and 
the  great  advantage  of  her  commercial  position,  the  State  has 
failed  to  make  that  progress  in  improvements,  population  and 
general  development  legitimately  anticipated.  The  causes 
operating  so  unhappily  to  embarrass  the  due  development  of 
California,  and  tending  so  decisively  to  prevent  the  enterprise 
of  the  citizens  of  this  coast  from  resulting  in  forms  of  progress 
equal  to  the  superior  local  advantages  enumerated,  exist 
mainly,  in  the  relation  California,  sustains  to  the  Atlantic 
States. 

The  States  of  California  and  Oregon,  and  the  Territory  of 
Washington,  are  the  most  distant  and  difficult  of  access  of  any 
over  which  the  Government  is  pledged  to  exercise  its  protec- 
tion and  fostering  care.  They  are  without  the  ordinary  means 
of  a  healthy  and  natural  growth.  While  the  avenues  of  emi- 
gration are  comparatively  open,  easy  and  safe  to  every  other 
part  of  the  Union,  the  route  to  its  Pacific  possessions,  whether 
by  land  or  sea,  is  constantly  beset  with  every  species  of  diffi- 
culty and  danger.  Our  remote  position  and  the  difficulties 
encountered  in  travel,  transit  and  general  commerce,  with  the 
Eastern  and  more  populous  States  of  the  Union,  are  sufficient 
to  explain  the  slow  degrees  which  have  marked  the  progress 
and  development  of  the  Pacific  Coast. 

There  are  other  great  difficulties  with  which  these  States 
have  to  contend,  operating  to  prevent  State  aid  of  Railroad 
enterprise  within  their  limits. 

fin  the  State  of  California,  the  revenue  is  unjustly  and  most 
unequally  divided.     Her  taxable  area  of  land  does  not  exceed 


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one-ninth  of  the  area  of  the  State ;  the  remainder  contributes 
nothing  to  the  revenues  of  the  State,  because  it  is  a  part  of  the 
public  domain,  and  therefore  not  subject  to  taxation. 

Three-fourths  of  the  population  of  the  State  occupy  what  is 
denominated  "  the  mining  lands."  These  lands  are.  and  have 
been  to  this  time,  acknowledged  to  be  the  property  of  the 
General  Government.  The  State  is  called  upon  to  exercise 
all  its  governmental  functions  over  the  people  occupying  said 
territory,  without  deriving  revenue  from  the  land  so  occupied^} 
Although  this  questiontof  federal  exercise  of  power,  against 
the  true  interests  of  a  sovereign  State,  is  important,  and  claims 
early  and  serious  consideration,  we  do  not  propose  now  to  dis- 
cuss it  further. 

(  Oregon  and  the  Territory  of  Washington  stand  in  a  similar 
relation  upon  this  important  question^ 

It  is  referred  to  here  for  the  purpose  of  explaining  to  the 
General  Government  a  ^hardship  which  has  seriously  affected 
the  progress  and  development  of  this  State. 

It  cannot  be  charged  as  the  fault  of  the  Pacific  States,  that 
their  revenue  is  so  unequally  derived ;  nor  will  the  General 
Government  be  at  loss  to  account  for  the  present  inability  of 
these  States,  to  aid  the  construction  of  expensive  Railroad  en- 
terprises, when  they  learn,  what  is  the  fact,  that  but  an  inconsid- 
erable part  of  the  people  of  the  State  contribute  to  the  support 
of  the  Government. 

The  State  of  Oregon,  although  a  young  State, — inexperienced 
in  the  demands  upon,  and  in  the  exercise  of  Sovereign  power, 
already,  wisely  foresees  her  inability  to  construct,  or  to  aid 
the  construction  of  Railroads  within  her  limits,  without  the 
help  usually  granted  by  the  General  Government. 

It  will  be  observed,  that  the  State  of  California,  has  an  un- 
protected Coast  line  exceeding  seven  hundred  miles.  Oregon, 
five  hundred  miles,  and  the  Territory  of  Washington,  includ- 
ing the  waters  of  Puget  Sound,  of  one  thousand  miles. 
The  people  on  this  Coast,  entertain  very  firm  convictions, 
that  their  interests  as  well  as  the  general  security  of  the  terri- 


m 

tory  of  the  United  States  on  this  Coast,  have  been  constantly 
overlooked. 

The  States  of  California  and  Oregon,  and  Washington  Ter- 
ritory, represent  the  intelligence  and  patriotism  of  every  sec 
tion  of  the  Union.  They  are  national  in  sentiment,  and  in  ac- 
tion ;  and  have  no  connection  with  the  local  difficulties  which 
excite  and  tend  to  divide  the  Eastern  States  of  our  Union. 
While  they  claim  to  understand  their  duties,  as  consistent 
parts  of  the  confederacy  ;  they  also  claim  to  be  informed  of 
their  Sovereign  rights,  and  believe  them  to  be  at  least  equal 
to  those  of  other  States,  and  entitled  to  respect  and  considera- 
tion. These  States  hold  that  they  understand  the  objects  and 
purposes  of  a  federal  compact :  they  believe  that  the  principal 
purposes  to  be  answered  by  union,  are  the  common  defense  of 
its  members  ; — the  preservation  of  the  public  peace  (internally 
and  externally)  and  the  proper  adjustment  of  differences  arising 
between  the  several  sovereignties. 

That  for  such  purposes  the  States  united  in  confering  and 
centralizing  power  in  the  Federal  Government ;  and  that  if  it 
be  put  to  use,  it  is  fit  and  proper,  to  be  directed  to  any  and 
every  National  exigency  which  may  arise. 

The  circumstances  tending  to  endanger  the  safety  and  tran- 
quility of  this  portion  of  the  Union,  are  too  numerous  to  be 
herein  specified  ;  and,  if  the  power  or  influence  of  the  Federal 
Government  were  not  created,  only,  to  be  exercised  upon  the 
Eastern  seaboard,  it  cannot  be  called  upon  to  provide  for  the 
defense  and  protection  of  the  States  and   Territories  on  this 

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Coast. 

yWhile  yielding  to  no  other  portion  of  the  Union,  in  the  de- 
votion of  its  people  to  the  General  Government,  the  reflection 
may  not  be  amiss,  that  there  is  growing  up  on  this  portion  of 
the  continent  a  new  generation,  bound  by  no  ties  of  birth  to  the 
older  States,  and  that,  should  their  interests  be  neglected  after 
the  manner  of  the  nine  years  past,  there  will  naturally  spring 
up  a  coldness  and  indifference,  which   it   is  the  part  of  wisdom 

o  avoid. 


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It  is  both  unwise  and  impolitic  on  the  part  of  the  General 
Government,  longer  to  delay  a  practical  recognition  of  the 
claims  of  the  States  and  Territory,  on  this  Coast.  In  a  nation- 
al, or  any  other  point  of  view  works  which  increase  our  means 
of  defense,  or  which  afford  to  us  an  independant,  speedy,  and 
reliable  communication  with  the  Eastern  portion  of  the  Union 
and  the  seat  of  the  Central  Government,  are  of  paramount  im- 
portance. 

The  known  policy  of  the  Government,  respecting  foreign  in- 
tervention in  American  affairs,  although  most  cordially  ap- 
proved by  the  people  of  this  Coast,  but  adds  to  their  liability 
to  be  involved  in  all  the  disasters  of  war,  and  that  too,  while 
it  is  utterly  beyond  the  power  of  the  Goverument  to  strike  one 
effective  blow  in  their  defense,  at  the  same  time,  also,  the  peo- 
ple on  the  whole  frontier  line  of  these  States  and  Territory  are 
exposed  to  forays  and  rapine,  from  numerous  and  powerful  In- 
dian tribes. 

It  is  a  true  principle,  never  to  be  forgotteu  by  Statesmen  ; 
that,  while  it  is  the  duty  of  the  citizen  to  obey  the  Govern, 
ment ;  it  is  no  less  the  duty  of  the  Government  to  protect  the 
citizens,  and  it  is  an  admitted  truism,  that  a  free  people  will 
not  long  endure  a  Government  which  refuses  to  afford  them 
that  protection  for  which  Governments  were  instituted. 

Addressing  those  who  are  presumed  to  survey  the  great  in- 
terests of  the  Republic — who  regard  the  common  dictates  of 
good  faith,  and  who  recognize  the  binding  force  and  equal  obli- 
gation which  characterize  our  federal  compact,  we  believe  it 
will  not  be  in  vain  to  represent  the  condition  of  these  sove- 
reignties, and  demand  that  measure  of  relief  which  has  been 
too  long  delayed. 

J  The  great  project  of  constructing  a  trans-continental  Rail 
way,  answering  the   purpose   of  protection  of  this  coast — of 
stimulating  immigration — of  securing  a  speedy  settlement  of 
the  country  lying  between  the  Sierra  Nevada  and  the  Rocky 
Mountains— of  developing  our  great  resources — of  putting  our 
people  in  a  line  of  success — of  building  up  our  commercial  in 


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terests — of  turning  the  commerce  of  Asia  through  the  United 
States,  and  of  realizing  generally  the  benefits  of  uninterrupted, 
cheap  and  speedy  communication  with  our  sister  States — we 
commend  to  your  earnest  consideration. 

This  Convention  and  the  people  of  this  coast  are  united  in  a 
demand  for  a  Railroad  which  shall  be  constructed  from  some 
point  upon  the  western  border  of  the  Atlantic  States,  along 
what  is  known  as  the  "  Central  Route,"  to  some  point  on  the 
frontier  of  California  ;  whence  divergent  lines  can  be  run — 
one  to  the  waters  of  Columbia  River,  or  Puget  Sound,  of  the 
north,  and  one  to  San  Francisco,  in  the  south. 

They  are  also  united  in  demanding  of  the  General  Govern- 
ment a  liberal  donation  of  the  public  lands,  by  which  they 
shall  be  enabled  to  aid  the  construction  of  the  said  branch 
lines  of  Railroad. 

It  cannot  be  believed  that  Congress  will  refuse  so  simple  an 
act  of  justice  to  these  States,  or  will  be  so  blind  and  unmind- 
ful of  the  interest  and  duty  of  the  Government,  as  not  to  meet 
their  expectation  in  this  behalf,  or  that  it  will  fail  to  extend  to 
this  coast  the  benefit  and  security  of  Railroad  communication 
with  the  East. 

fit  is  a  fact  universally  conceded,  that  an  expenditure  of  one 
hundred  million  dollars  in  the  construction  of  fortifications 
upon  this  coast,  will  not  render  it  as  secure  against  invasion 
as  the  construction  of  the  Pacific  Railroad.  ,1 

The  celerity,  too,  (having  a  Continental  Railway,)  with 
which  an  army  and  its  accompanying  supplies  would  be  trans- 
ferred across  the  continent,  in  any  national  exignecy  requiring 
expeditious  movement  to  this  frontier,  is  worthy  of  great  con- 
sideration at  your  hands. 

The  completion  of  the  Continental  Railroad  will  be  the 
nation's  announcement  of  readiness  to  take  part  in  the  stirring 
events  of  the  coming  time.  Its  construction  is  practicable, 
necessary,  and  promising  the  greatest  results.  Once  com- 
pleted, the  States  of  the  Union  will  realize  ihe  advantages  re- 
sulting from  the  trade  of  nations  passing  over  this  great  higl- 


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way.  It  will  heal  the  political  asperities  which  afflict  the  na- 
tion, hush  the  elements  of  discord  and  fanaticism  which  spread 
dismay  over  the  country,  and  afford  ready  employment  to  a 
multitude  who  labor  for  their  bread.  It  will  lead  to  the  estab- 
lishment of  steamship  communication  between  San  Francisco 
and  the  ports  of  Japan  and  the  Chinese  Empire — inaugurate  a 
new  era  in  the  commercial  exchanges  between  these  countries 
and  our  own — greatly  benefit  every  interest  of  the  North, 
South,  East  and  West.  It  will  rescue  a  hundred  thousand 
leagues  of  land  from  desolation,  and  will  people  the  same  with 
millions  of  stout  hearts  and  strong  arms. 

Are  not  these,  objects  which  should  incite  our  representa- 
tives in  Congress  to  the  greatest  effort  ?  Are  they  not  advan- 
tages worthy  of  immediate  and  zealous  consideration  ?  Are 
these  not  interests,  so  common  to  the  Republic,  that  the  South 
and  the  North,  the  East  and  the  West,  may  unite  in  fraternal 
faith  and  patriotic  purpose,  to  attain  ? 

If,  like  Cassar,  men  would  be  read,  to  their  great  praise,  let 
them  favor  a  scheme  which  has  for  its  object  the  benefit  of 
this  State,  this  coast,  our  territories  intermediate,  the  whole 
Union,  and  the  development  of  a  great  and  glorious  destiny. 
Let  them  give  their  adhesion  to  an  enterprise  which  shall  knit 
our  several  sovereignties,  in  amity  so  strong,  that  subtle,  intrig- 
uing artifices,  within,  or  foes  and  envious  force,  without,  may 
never  unravel  the  federal  covenants  we  inherit. 

These  grand  results  to  the  nation,  and  simple  justice,  to 
these  distant  sovereignties,  bound  to  you  by  strong  ties,  may, 
in  the  estimation  of  the  undersigned,  be  attained  in  the  great- 
est degree  by  the  favorable  consideration  of  the  Government, 
granted  to  the  following  propositions. 

First. — That  the  Government  aid  the  construction  of  the 
Continental  Railroad  across  the  Territory  of  the  United  States, 
by  the  guaranty  by  the  Government,  of  the  payment  of  inter- 
est not  exceeding  five  per  centum  per  annum  during  twenty 
years,  on  the  bonds  which  may  be  issued  by  the  company  con- 


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structing  the  said  Road,  representing  a  sum  not  exceeding  the 
actual  cost  of  the  Road. 

Second. — That  the  Government  grant  liberally  from  the  pub- 
lie  lands  of  the  Territory,  over  which  the  said  Road  shall  pass  ; 
to  such  Company  or  Companies,  as  shall  construct  the  same 
from  the  Western  Frontier  of  the  Atlantic  States,  to  the  East- 
ern Frontier  of  the  State  of  California. 

Third. — That  in  such  grant  of  lands,  the  Government  offer 
a  bonus,  conditional,  to  wit  ;  if  the  Company  construct  the 
said  Road,  and  put  the  same  in  complete  operation  within  five 
years  from  the  date  of  the  contract  ;  grant  to  the  Company 
alternate  sections  thirty  miles  deep,  on  each  side  of  the  road — 
but  if  the  Company  occupy  a  longer  period  of  time  in  its  con 
struction,  grant  them  only  ten  sections  deep. 

These  grants  and  these  conditions,  with  the  right  of  way, 
and  such  subsidies  and  transportation  contracts,  as  the  Gov- 
ernment can  well  give,  will  insure  the  speedy  undertaking  and 
completion  of  the  work. 

Fourth — That  the  Government  donate  to  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia, all  the  public  lands  within  her  limits,  (excepting  the 
mining  lands,)  also  to  repay  to  said  State  the  sum  of  two  million 
seven  hundred  and  six  thousand,  five  hundred  and  twelve  dol- 
lars, claimed  to  be  legally  due  said  State,  having  been  collec- 
ted, as  Customs,  at  the  port  of  San  Francisco,  between  the 
dates  of  August  Gth,  A.  D.  1848,  and  September  9th,  A.  D. 
1850  ;  these  lands  and  this  sum,  to  be  placed  to  the  credit  of 
"  State  Railroad  Fund,"  and  used  as  the  Legislature  of  the 
State  may  direct  in  aid  of  the  construction  of  that  portion  of 
the  Pacific  Railaoad.  which  shall  run  from  San  Francisco,  to 
connect  with  the  Grand  Trunk  Road  authorized  by  Govern- 
ment to  be  constructed  to  the  Eastern  Frontier  of  the  State. 

Fifth. — That  the  Government  grant  like,  and  similar  aid  to 
the  State  of  Oregon,  and  to  Washington  Territory  ;  whereby 
they  may  be  enabled  to  construct  a  line  of  Railway  to  inter- 


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cept  the  Grand  Trunk  Road  of  the 
as  shall  be  practicable  at  or  near  th 
fornia.  1 

JOHN  BIDWELL 


Government  at  such  a  point 
e  Eastern  Frontier  of  Cali- 


President. 


THOMAS  J.  DRYER, 
THOS.  A.  SAVIER, 
A.  B.  HALLOCK, 
J.  RAMSDELL, 
NATH'IT  HOLLAND, 
LOUIS  R.  LULL, 
W.  S.  WATSON, 
WM.  H.  DALRYMPLE, 
JOSEPH  LEYINSON, 
THOMAS  BAKER, 
RICH'D  P.  HAMMOND, 
GEO.  W.  CRANE, 
Z.  MONTGOMERY, 
JNO.  GILLIG, 
H.  MILLS, 
J.  A.  TAYLOR, 
F.  S.  BALCH, 
J.  A.  AMERMAN, 
GROYE  K.  GODFREY, 
HENRY  S.  FITCH, 
T.  DAME, 
JAS.  C.  COBB, 
HORACE  AUSTIN, 
R.  J.  LATZ, 
J.  S.  ORMSBY, 
J.  H.  CAROTHERS, 
J.  G.  McCALLUM, 
BENJ.  R.  NICKERSON, 
DAN'L  S.  HOWARD, 
S.  D.  MASTICK, 
M.  H.  FARLEY, 


THEO.  D.  JUDAH,  * 
J.  B.  CROCKETT, 
S.  M.  MEZES, 
JOS.  C.  McKlBBIN, 
J.  W.  OSBORN, 
WM.  H.  RHODES, 
ED.  M.  HALL, 
E.  K.  VANDECAR, 
ALEX.  P.  ANKENY, 
W.  B.  FAR  WELL, 
G.  M.  HANSON, 
E.  S.  HOLDEN, 
J.  S.  TITUS,     .. 
11.  C.  GERE, 
HENRY  GERKE, 
T.  W.  LANDER, 
E.  BURKE, 
R.  S.  MILLER, 
PHIL.  WTASSERMAN, 
W.  S.  SHERWOOD, 
LAFAYETTE  BALCH, 
R.  MATHESON, 
WM.  BLACKBURN, 
EUGENE  CROWELL, 
IRA  P.  RANKIN, 
HENRY  M.  HALE, 
D.  0.  MILLS, 
H.  G.  WORTHINGTON, 
LEVI  PARSONS, 
LEWIS  M.  STARR, 
FRANCIS  B.  CAMP, 


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F.  A.  BEE, 

J.  A.  McDOUGALL, 
L.  ARCHER, 
WM.  J.  LEWIS, 
T.  B.  WADE, 
J.  F.  FARLEY, 
R.  W.  RUSSELL, 
T.    ROBERTSON, 
THOS.  H.  PEARNE, 
MARCUS  KIMBALL, 
E.  LANDER, 

seth  luelling, 
b.  s.  lippencott, 
e.  McCarthy, 

A.  MEEK, 
JAMES  MICHEAL, 

G.  M.  HANSOM, 
A.    C.   HINKSON, 
L.  HITE, 

M.   HIRSH, 
S.  J.  AXTELL, 
JOHN  H.  ATCHINSON, 
G.  BAECHTELL, 
W.  T.  BARBOUR, 
A.  T.  BAILEY, 
J.  M.  BLOSSOM, 
R.  HALE, 


F.  A.  BISHOP, 
THOMAS  J.  ARNOLD, 

E.  A.  ROCKWELL, 
DANIEL  GIBB, 

R.  H.  MITCHELL, 
W.  W.  PORTER, 
GEO.  W.  PRESCOTT 
W.  H.  RECTOR, 
CHESTER  N.  TERRY, 

F.  HOOKER 
W.  A.  HOUSEL, 
C.  P.   JACKSON, 
ED.  JANSSEN, 

E.  JOYNT, 
J.  KAMP, 

J.  B.  KNAPP, 
JOHN  CONNESS, 
J.  H.  CUTTER, 
V.  B.  DAUB, 
A.  D.  ELLIS, 
GEORGE  FLAYEL, 

F.  FORD, 

E.  S.  GILLESPIE,  ^ 
A.  B.  GOVE, 
L.  C.   GRAY, 
J.  E.  HALE, 
L.  A.  BOOTH, 


CITY  OF  SAN  FRANCISCO,  ) 
October  10,  1859.      j 
I,  WILLIAM  RABE,   Secretary   of  the  Pacific  Railroad 
Convention,  do  hereby  certify  that   the   foregoing  is  a   full, 
true  and  exact  copy  of  the   Memorial   No   2,  ordered  on  file 
among  the  documents  of  the  Convention. 

WILLIAM  RABE, 
Secretary  Pacific  R.  R.  Convention.    . 


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